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The Ignorance of the Crowd
Our social networks are like the biosphere: we don’t fully understand them; they’re changing rapidly; and these changes could lead to global collapse
Joseph B. Bak-Coleman is a PhD candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University.
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